
Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents on October 25, 1973. Suheir’s family immigrated to Brooklyn NY when Suheir was five years old, and she was raised there until the age of sixteen. Her parents moved to Staten Island while Suheir was in high school. Suheir has been able to travel throughout the world via her poetry. She has read her poems in Ivy League Universities and on Brooklyn’s street corners. Her work has appeared in award winning anthologies
Refugees
In America
This is to Certify
Mike Check
First Writing Since
Refugees [feat. K-Salaam]
Bag Of Zaatar
Mama Sweet Baklava
What I Will
angels get no maps
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